Organic Waste Recycling

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Table 2.30 Limitations for cleaner production (UNEP 2001)

Types of

constraints

Sub categories

High cost of external capital for investments in industry.

Lack of funding mechanisms (lending schemes etc) appropriate for

cleaner production investments.

Perception that investments in cleaner production present a high

financial risk due to the innovative nature of cleaner production

Financial

Cleaner production not properly valued by credit providers in their

evaluation procedures for lending, equity participation.

Cleaner production investments are not sufficiently cost effective

(compared with other investment opportunities), given present

resources prices

Immaturity of the company's internal cost calculation and cost

allocation practices

Economic

Immaturity of the company's internal capital budgeting and capital

allocation procedures

Insufficient focus on cleaner production in environmental, technology,

trade and industry development and strategies.

Policy-related

Immaturity of the environmental policy framework

(including lack of enforcement, etc.)

Lack of leadership for environmental affairs

Perceived management risk related to cleaner production (e.g. no

incentives for managers to put their efforts into implementation of

cleaner production)

Immaturity of the environmental management function in the

company's operations.

(General) immaturity of the organization structure of the company and

its management and information systems.

Organizational

Limited experience with employee involvement and project work

Absence of a sound operational basis (with well established production

practices, maintenance schemes etc.)

Complexity of cleaner production (e.g. need to undertake

comprehensive assessment to engineering small wares for process

instrumentation)

Limited accessibility of equipments supportive to cleaner production

(e.g. high quality engineering small wares for process instrumentation)

Technical

Limited accessibility of reliable technical information tailored to the

company's needs and assimilative capacities.

Indifference: perception regarding the own role in contributing to

environmental improvement

Narrow interpretation or misunderstanding of the cleaner production

concept

Conceptual

(General) resistance to change